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Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers ...
Apr. 12—Dolores Huerta took a stroll around the National Hispanic Cultural Center on Friday during a break from a string of interviews. At Fourth Street SW, Avenida César Chávez gives way to ...
Dolores Huerta, one of the most influential labor activists in the 20th century, attests that music was a crucial spark in America's largest farmworker movement. “So much of the music from that ...
Dolores Huerta is a pioneering civil rights leader, labor activist and feminist whose work has helped reshape the landscape of social justice in the United States. Huerta's contributions have ...
Huerta co-founded what’s now known as the United Farmworkers Association with Cesar Chavez and coined the phrase, ¡Si se puede! Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta throws her endorsement into a ...
The Forty Acres complex in Delano was made a National Landmark in 2008 Dolores Huerta holding a Huelga (strike) sign. On March 17, 1966, Cesar Chavez embarked on a 300-mile pilgrimage from Delano, California to the state's capital of Sacramento. This was an attempt to pressure the growers and the state government to answer the demands of the ...
The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It originated from the merger of two workers' rights organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by organizer Larry Itliong.
Dolores Huerta: I want to thank you for even thinking about farmworkers. During the pandemic, there was a lot of talk about essential workers—the health-care workers, the auto workers, the ...